Aetheomorpha bacboensis Medvedev, 1992

Wang, Feng-Yan & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2012, Taxonomy of the genus Aetheomorpha Lacordaire (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini) from China, with description of five new species, Journal of Natural History 46 (23 - 24), pp. 1407-1440 : 1423-1426

Aetheomorpha bacboensis Medvedev, 1992

( Figures 7A–I , 12G )

Medvedev, 1992b: 72 (type locality: North Vietnam, prov. Thanh–Hoa, Mountains southwest Baithuong ; holotype deposited: LM); Medvedev, 2010: 197 ( Yunnan , Xishuangbanna ).

Material examined

CHINA: Guangxi: two males, one female, Longzhou , 2 May 1963, leg. Shuyong Wang ; one male, Longzhou , 2 May 1963, leg. Yongshan Shi ; one female, Longzhou , 2 May 1963, leg. Chunguang Wang ; Yunnan: two females, Hekou, Xiaonanxi , 9 June 1956, leg. Keren Huang ; two females, Jinping, Mengla , 2 May 1956, leg. Keren Huang ; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong , 13 July 1958, leg. Xuwu Meng ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla , 23 May 1959, leg. Fuji Pu ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Xiaomengyang , 18 June 1957, leg. Shuyong Wang ; one male, Xishuangbanna, Yiwu , 13 May 1959, leg. Zhenfu Li ( IZ-CAS) ; VIETNAM: nine males, five females, Tonkin , Hoa Binh, leg. A de Cooman ( IZ-CAS) .

Distribution

China (Guangxi, Yunnan), North Vietnam (Thanh Hoa, Hoa Binh) .

Remarks

Aetheomorpha bacboensis Medvedev, 1992 is close to A. cochinchinensis Lefèvre, 1889 , which is distributed in South Vietnam and Myanmar; but the former can be well distinguished by the fan-shaped aedeagal apex, obviously wider than long. Moreover, the spermathecal duct is very long, closely coiled into a ball. Ventral rectal sclerites are obviously kneeing ( Figure 7H ).

Figures

Figure 7. Aetheomorpha bacboensis Medvedev: (A) habitus; (B) maxilla; (C) labium; (D) male genitalia in dorsal view; (E) male genitalia in lateral view; (F) male genitalia in ventral view; (G) spermatheca; (H) rectal sclerites in ventral view; (I) rectal sclerites in dorsal view. Scales 0.5 mm.

Figure 12. Habitus of Aetheomorpha: (A) Aetheomorpha bidentata sp. nov.; (B) Aetheomorpha bilobata sp. nov.; (C) Aetheomorpha obtusapicata sp. nov.; (D) Aetheomorpha punctistriata sp. nov.; (E) Aetheomorpha wangi sp. nov.; (F) Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner; (G) Aetheomorpha bacboensis Medvedev; (H) Aetheomorpha coerulea (Jacoby); (I) Aetheomorpha decemnotata (Jacoby).